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Visionary Women

Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Phyllis Mack

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Visionary Women

Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Phyllis Mack

This study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses on the Society of Friends, or Quakers, the largest radical sectarian group active during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The meeting records, correspondence, almanacs, autobiographical and religious writings left by the early Quakers enable Mack to present a textured portrait of their evolving spirituality. Parallel sources on men and women provide a unique opportunity to pose theoretical questions about the meaning of gender, such as whether a "women's spirituality" can be identified, or whether religious women are more or less emotional than men.

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Univ of California Press

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0520915585

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The Second Mack Reynolds Megapack

21 Classic Tales of Science Fiction

By: Mack Reynolds

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The Second Mack Reynolds Megapack

21 Classic Tales of Science Fiction

By: Mack Reynolds

The Second Mack Reynolds Megapack" assembles a stellar collection of rare and classic works by a science fiction master! Here are 21 tales spanning space and time, including: COME IN, SPACEPORT COMPOUNDED INTEREST THE BUSINESS, AS USUAL GOOD INDIAN NO RETURN FROM ELBA PACIFIST EARTHLINGS GO HOME! ALBATROSS THE ENEMY WITHIN SURVIVOR FAD SPACEMAN ON A SPREE THE ADVENTURE OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL UTOPIAN PRONE DOWN THE RIVER SECOND ADVENT ROMP FIDO ISOLATIONIST NOT IN THE RULES And if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479402966

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9781479402960

Rolltown

Bat Hardin #3

By: Mack Reynolds

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Rolltown

Bat Hardin #3

By: Mack Reynolds

In Rolltown, Mack Reynolds turns his productive imagination towards the growing phenomenon of mobile living in America. Taking us decades into the future, he tells the story of a world where people have taken to the road en masse, in huge mobile "towns" composed of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants, attempting to deal with a hostile and over-organized world.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479425907

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Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts

By: Sharyn Roach Anleu,Kathy Mack

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Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts

By: Sharyn Roach Anleu,Kathy Mack

Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of lower courts. Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts draws on extensive original, independent empirical data to identify different ways judicial officers approach and experience their work. It theorizes the meanings of these variations for the legitimate performance of judicial authority. The central theoretical and empirical finding presented in this book is the incomplete fit between conventional norms of judicial performance, emphasizing detachment and impersonality, and the practical, day-to-day judicial work in high volume, time-pressured lower courts. Understanding the judicial officer as the crucial link between formal abstract law, the legal institution of the court and the practical tasks of the courtroom, generates a more complete theory of judicial legitimacy which includes the manner in which judicial officers present themselves and communicate their decisions in court.

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Springer

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1137521597

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9781137521590

Biography of a Phantom

A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: Robert Mack McCormick

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Biography of a Phantom

A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: Robert Mack McCormick

The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himself "This is a human and humane book, an insightful exploration of the biographer’s craft. [...] McCormick’s book makes you feel what we lost when Johnson died young." —New York Times "Reads like noir fiction. It's a detective story riddled with fatalism and ambiguity carried out by someone who, like the archetypal noir hero, isn't a detective but an ordinary guy in a dismal, often violent setting searching for what can't be found." —Wall Street Journal When blues master Robert Johnson’s little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey is musicologist Mack McCormick's all-consuming search, from the late 1960s until McCormick’s death in 2015, to uncover Johnson's life story. McCormick spent decades reconstructing Johnson's mysterious life and developing theories about his untimely death at the age of 27, but never made public his discoveries. Biography of a Phantom publishes his compelling work for the first time, including 40 unseen black-and-white photographs documenting his search. While knocking on doors and sleuthing for Johnson's loved ones and friends, McCormick documents a Mississippi landscape ravaged by the racism of paternalistic white landowners and county sheriffs. An editor's preface and afterword from Smithsonian curator John W. Troutman provides context as well as troubling details about McCormick’s own impact on Johnson’s family and illuminates through McCormick’s archive the complex legacy of white male enthusiasts assuming authority over Black people’s stories and the history of the blues. While Johnson died before achieving widespread recognition, his music took on a life of its own and inspired future generations. Biography of a Phantom, filled with lush descriptive fieldwork and photographs, is an important historical object that deepens the understanding of a stellar musician.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588347370

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9781588347374

Sugar Creek

Life on the Illinois Prairie

By: John Mack Faragher

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Sugar Creek

Life on the Illinois Prairie

By: John Mack Faragher

The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, and reminiscences, the author of the prize-winning Women and Men on the Overland Trail vividly portrays the lives of the prairie’s inhabitants—Indians, pioneers, farming men and women—and adds a compelling new chapter to American social history. "This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Every chapter, almost every page, contains new ideas or throws new light on old ones, by means of a wealth of detail and clarity of though which brings the past alive again."—Hugh Brogan, The Times Literary Supplement "A notably successful example of the new work being done on the social history of rural America…. Faragher has constructed a vivid portrait of everyday life as well as an analysis of how the community developed and changed."—George M. Fredrickson, New York Review of Books "Here, succinctly set out, is the American prairie experience."—Publishers Weekly "Sugar Creek is a major new interpretation of America’s rural past."—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award John Mack Faragher is associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.

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Yale University Press

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0300229674

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9780300229677

Sensing Chicago

Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers

By: Adam Mack

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Sensing Chicago

Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers

By: Adam Mack

A hundred years ago and more, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of foulness mingled with the all-pervading stench of the stockyard slaughterhouses. In Sensing Chicago, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining five case studies: the Chicago River, the Great Fire, the 1894 Pullman Strike, the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and the rise and fall of the White City amusement park. His vivid recounting of the smells, sounds, and tactile miseries of city life reveals how input from the five human senses influenced the history of class, race, and ethnicity in the city. At the same time, he transports readers to an era before modern refrigeration and sanitation, when to step outside was to be overwhelmed by the odor and roar of a great city in progress.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209722X

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9780252097225

Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity

The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud

By: Michael Mack

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Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity

The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud

By: Michael Mack

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A&C Black

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1441118721

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9781441118721

Equals in Learning and Piety

Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America

By: Beverly Mack

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Equals in Learning and Piety

Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America

By: Beverly Mack

Equals in Learning and Piety is an intellectual history of the ‘Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that continues to this day in both northern Nigeria and in the United States. Drawing on extensive scholarship across disciplines including history, Islamic studies, anthropology, gender and women’s studies, and literary studies—and alongside rigorous ethnographic research and interviews with leading Nigerian Muslim scholars—Beverly Mack argues that this formidable Muslim women’s movement consolidated the religious and social order established by the Sokoto Jihad in the early nineteenth century. Mack shows how women scholars instructed rural Hausa and Fulani women in Muslim ethics, doctrine, traditions, and behavior that followed and replaced the traumatic experience of warfare unleashed by the Jihad. She shows that these unique social engagements shaped people’s agency in the dynamic process of social change throughout the nineteenth century. Women imaginatively reconciled Muslim reformist doctrines and traditional practices in Nigeria, and these doctrines have continued to be influential in the diaspora, especially among Black American Muslims in the United States in the twenty-first century. With this major investigation of a little-studied phenomenon, Mack demonstrates the importance of women to the religious, political, and social transformation of Nigerian Muslim society.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299342603

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9780299342609

False Messiah

By: R. Mack Pumphrey

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False Messiah

By: R. Mack Pumphrey

Pumphrey discusses how Christians can distinguish false prophets from true prophets in a timely fashion. According to the author, more than 1,000 false Christs appeared in the 20th century. (Christian)

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Xulon Press

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160266157X

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9781602661578

A Myth of Innocence

Mark and Christian Origins

By: Burton L. Mack

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A Myth of Innocence

Mark and Christian Origins

By: Burton L. Mack

This imaginative book is not just a study of the Gospel of Mark, but of primitive Christianity in all its variegated forms, for which it represents a new paradigm ... It deserves serious reflection and discussion at several levels, in a variety of contexts, by quite diversified discussion partners."? James M. Robinson, Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate University"This is an epic-making work because it turns scholarship on its head. Mack asks questions not about origins but about social meaning. The entire conception of what we want to know, why we want to know it, and how we shall find it out is new and compelling."? Jacob Neusner, Bard College"A Myth of Innocence is the most penetrating historical work on the origins of Christianity written by an American scholar in this century. Its strikingly innovative feature is the recombination of literary and social histories, and the placement of diverse Jesus movements into their respective social contexts."? Werner H. Kelber, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

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Fortress Press

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1451404662

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9781451404661

Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges

African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community

By: Kibibi Voloria C. Mack

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Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges

African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community

By: Kibibi Voloria C. Mack

Focusing on the community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, from 1880 to 1940, Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges explores the often sharp class divisions that developed among African American women in that small, semirural area.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572330309

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9781572330306

Mercenary from Tomorrow

By: Mack Reynolds

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Mercenary from Tomorrow

By: Mack Reynolds

Western society is split up into nine castes, from Lower-Lower to Mid-Lower all the way up to the privileged Upper-Upper. Mauser himself was born a Mid-Lower. Ambitious, he had chosen one of the few professions, Category Military, where upward mobility was still a reasonable possibility. To prevent any chance of a ruinous war between the West and the Sov-world, the Universal Disarmament Pact had restricted all militaries to pre-1900 technology. Gradually, powerful corporations began settling business disputes by hiring troops to fight real battles (fracases) on one of many military reservations. This served a dual purpose: to maintain a military well-honed by actual combat and to provide the decadent general population with a diversion. The life-and-death struggles are so popular that they are televised. Mauser had worked his way up to captain and Middle-Middle status after many years of effort. When upstart Vacuum Tube Transport finds itself forced into an expensive, division-sized fracas with Continental Hovercraft, he sees his opportunity. He signs up with the underdog, even though the much wealthier Continental is able to hire the best soldiers available, including Marshal "Stonewall" Cogswell, the finest commander in the business. Mauser tells Baron Haer, the head of Vacuum Tube, that he can engineer an improbable victory with a gimmick he has been working on for a long time; in return, he expects the baron's support which, in conjunction with his anticipated popularity with fracas fans, should be enough to get him promoted into the Upper caste. The baron's son, Bart, scoffs at the undisclosed idea, but the baron is desperate for experienced officers and hires him.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479447056

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9781479447053

King of Comedy

By: Mack Sennett,Cameron Shipp

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King of Comedy

By: Mack Sennett,Cameron Shipp

This is the story of Mack Sennett, one the world’s most influential entertainers. Based on interviews with Mr. Sennett and persons associated with the master comedian, King of Comedy begins with Sennett’s birth on January 17, 1880 in a province of Quebec. The story invites the reader to follow Sennett through his childhood, his many entertainment experiences, his personal life highlighted by his relationship with Mabel Normand, his creation of masterpieces such as Keystone Cops and his discoveries of unforgettable entertainers such as Charlie Chaplin. As he states in his final chapter, Mack Sennett strives to, “…tell about the comedies and how we made them, and about the funny fellows and the pretty girls who acted in them. They are a lost breed. Their like may never, walk, tumble, or pratt-fall again.” And the same holds true for the likes of a man such as Mack Sennett.

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iUniverse

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0595091199

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9780595091195

The Fall of the American Dream

Painful Truths Countered with Specks of Hope

By: Sidney Mack

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The Fall of the American Dream

Painful Truths Countered with Specks of Hope

By: Sidney Mack

Beginning around 2005, this book grew out of frustration and necessity as I observed the slow crumbling away of our so-called American Way. As a teacher, patriot, mother, sister, and troubled soul, I literally began piecing together thiswriting whetherI liked it or not. I kept trying to stop the flow of words, but couldn't. Stream of consciousnessstabbed atme like a dagger,yet Ideclared to myself thatthenegative thrusts of violence, selfishness, and willfulness on the part of societal beings was temporary, not the tip of a disastrous iceberg beginning to crush civility in natureall around me, all around all of us. The tip of collapsehas deepenedin spite of looking the other way or putting my words in a drawer whereI couldn't see them. My language is strongcoupled with a bit of levity, but we must act collectively to make theincreasingly sparce specks of hope materialize into action and perseverance if we are tothrive and survive as a free nation.

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1467843660

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9781467843669

Up Close and All In

Life Lessons from a Wall Street Warrior

By: John Mack

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Up Close and All In

Life Lessons from a Wall Street Warrior

By: John Mack

From John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley, an intimate personal memoir and riveting business story, recounting how he helped grow the company from 300 to 50,000 employees over four decades, transformed a notoriously competitive culture into a successful and collaborative one, and lead the company through the 2008 financial crisis. During his thirty-four-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, John Mack’s goal was to build the strongest and most productive team on Wall Street. His ability to motivate his employees to do their best work, especially in times of crisis, was fostered by his willingness to slash through bureaucracy and stand up to powerful interests. A forceful personality, one journalist said Mack was “described as ‘charismatic’ so regularly that it could be part of his name.” In Up Close and All In, Mack traces his personal journey from a one-stoplight North Carolina mill town to a fortieth-floor corner office on Wall Street—and shares the life lessons he learned along the way. He developed a titanium-strength stomach for risk, stress, and competition while landing accounts early in his career, as investment banks fought like wolfpacks to take advantage of new deregulation, fielding business raids, booms, and busts. As he rose through the ranks, he never forgot where he came from, relying on his instincts, doing what was right, and listening to his people on the front lines. This culture of trust and collaboration helped Morgan Stanley anticipate future trends before other firms, adapt quickly, and achieve record profits. This gripping memoir includes both humbling lows—like when Mack made the difficult decision to leave Morgan Stanley in 2001—and exhilarating highs—such as when he made an eleventh-hour agreement with the Japanese bank Mitsubishi to save the company during the 2008 financial crisis, having refused to give in when top regulators pressured him to sell the firm for $2 per share. With humor and honesty, Mack shares advice on both business and life: how to create a culture of team players, how to keep perspective during crises, how to make difficult decisions when all eyes are on you, and more. From a singular man who’s as unafraid to cry publicly as he is to anger some of the most powerful people in the world, this is an indispensable guide to living and leading well.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982174277

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9781982174279

The Sea

A Cultural History

By: John Mack

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The Sea

A Cultural History

By: John Mack

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly nothing more integral to the development of the modern world. In The Sea: A Cultural History, John Mack considers those great expanses that both unite and divide us, and the ways in which human beings interact because of the sea, from navigation to colonization to trade. Much of the world’s population lives on or near the cost, and as Mack explains, in a variety of ways, people actually inhabit the sea. The Sea looks at the characteristics of different seas and oceans and investigates how the sea is conceptualized in various cultures. Mack explores the diversity of maritime technologies, especially the practice of navigation and the creation of a society of the sea, which in many cultures is all-male, often cosmopolitan, and always hierarchical. He describes the cultures and the social and technical practices characteristic of seafarers, as well as their distinctive language and customs. As he shows, the separation of sea and land is evident in the use of different vocabularies on land and on sea for the same things, the change in a mariner’s behavior when on land, and in the liminal status of points uniting the two realms, like beaches and ports. Mack also explains how ships are deployed in symbolic contexts on land in ecclesiastical and public architecture. Yet despite their differences, the two realms are always in dialogue in symbolic and economic terms. Casting a wide net, The Sea uses histories, maritime archaeology, biography, art history, and literature to provide an innovative and experiential account of the waters that define our worldly existence.

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Reaktion Books

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1861899289

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9781861899286

Black Cat Weekly #1

By: Michael Bracken,Hal Charles,Frank Lowell Nelson,Erle Stanley Gardner,James Holding,Harry Stephen Keeler,Brian Evenson,Mack Reynolds,Ralph Milne Farley,S. M. Tenneshaw,Keith Laumer

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Black Cat Weekly #1

By: Michael Bracken,Hal Charles,Frank Lowell Nelson,Erle Stanley Gardner,James Holding,Harry Stephen Keeler,Brian Evenson,Mack Reynolds,Ralph Milne Farley,S. M. Tenneshaw,Keith Laumer

The Black Cat web site has been around for almost four years now, serving up a weekly buffet of new and classic mysteries—and more recently science fiction—to thousands of readers each week. Rather than continue to release all these novels and stories as individual ebooks, we have decided to bundle them up into a convenient weekly magazine…which is a lot more fun to work on! So here is Black Cat Weekly #1, for your enjoyment pleasure. To make the first issue memorable, we are including a lot more content than usual—double the usual word count, in fact. This time we have no less than three complete novels and 7 short stories—and even a “true crime” feature by Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason! There’s something here for everyone to enjoy, whether you’re a fan of traditional mysteries, psychic detectives (in the case of Frank Lovell Nelson’s story, a telepathic detective, the first of 12 stories featuring Carlton Clarke from 1908, all of which will run in the Black Cat’s pages). Looking for modern detection? We have that, too. And if your taste runs to the fantastic, we also have adventures across parallel worlds and well into the future. (And monsters. Did I mention monsters?) Included are: REMISSION, by Michael Bracken A KEY FOR REBECCA, by Hal Charles AUROVIA’S FAMOUS LODGE CASE, by Frank Lowell Nelson THE CASE OF THE KNOCKOUT BULLET, by Erle Stanley Gardner HAND IN GLOVE, by James Holding THE SKULL OF THE WALZING CLOWN, by Harry Stephen Keeler HAVER, by Brian Evenson A ZLOOR FOR YOUR TROUBLE, by Mack Reynolds VALLISNERIA MADNESS, by Ralph Milne Farley LAST CALL FOR DOOMSDAY! by S. M. Tenneshaw WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM, by Keith Laumer

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479462381

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9781479462384

UFOs in Wartime

What They Didn't Want You To Know

By: Mack Maloney

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UFOs in Wartime

What They Didn't Want You To Know

By: Mack Maloney

UFOs do exist. They are found in Renaissance art, on ancient coins, etched on cave walls—and even reported in the Bible. Even more surprising is where they are documented most: in times of armed conflict.... Accounts of hovering objects, when war is imminent, reach as far back as 312 A.D. when seen by Roman Emperor Constantine I as he led his troops to battle. They supposedly aided George Washington in winning the American Revolution. UFOs were also reported flying over Normandy on D-Day, and were dubbed “foo fighters” by World War II pilots. In Vietnam, an Air Force commander said they were “plagued” by UFOs. Even today, the reports continue to pour in, as noiseless objects are seen darting over the battlegrounds of the Middle East. These sightings, as inconceivable as they may seem, are made by high ranking officials, soldiers and news reporters. Why do these reports spike so drastically during wartime? Could it be mistaken aircraft? Or is someone, or something, looking in on us.... Includes incredible photographs of UFOs

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Penguin

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1101477768

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9781101477762

Pathfinder Aircrew

Courage, Love and Loss in Bomber Command's Elite Force

By: Jennie Mack Gray

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Pathfinder Aircrew

Courage, Love and Loss in Bomber Command's Elite Force

By: Jennie Mack Gray

Who were the RAF Pathfinders in the Second World War? Who led them? What gave them the courage to carry on despite flak, night-fighters, and the many other hazards of air warfare? The Path Finder Force was RAF Bomber Command's only official elite Force, and it played a vital part in the Command's campaigns against Nazi Germany. This detailed and sympathetic account, based on 25 years' research, vividly describes what sort of people the Pathfinders were, what sustained them during their highly dangerous operations, and how their comrades, friends and families dealt with the all-too frequent losses - at sea, in Occupied Europe, in Germany, or in terrible accidents on British soil. Most of the personal documents used in Pathfinder Aircrew have never been published before. Based almost entirely on wartime or immediate post-war records, including aircrew letters and diaries, this book tells a very human story of members of an elite which was a byword for perseverance, technical excellence, and the most magnificent bravery.

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Perardua Books

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1999331788

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9781999331788

Dark Matter

By: Johnny Mack Hood

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Dark Matter

By: Johnny Mack Hood

A serial killer is loose. The President is dead in the locked Oval Office. Others die and no one has ever seen the killer or knows how many he has killed. Henry Morris is a peculiar psychopath – hard to remember and never noticed as he comes and goes. He was like the Astronomer’s concept of Dark Matter, 95% of the known Universe, unseen but with a profound influence on how the galaxies move and the stars take their positions. San Diego and the surrounding area are the principal venues for the pursuit of this madman. It takes a mild-mannered Washington bureaucrat, unschooled in police work, to come up with the right stuff. Even then Henry manages a few unexpected tricks. This tale will have you wondering whether that person you never noticed at the mall or in the supermarket has changed your life forever. Maybe tomorrow you should give a prayer of thanks that you survived that unnoticed meeting.

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1452038163

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9781452038162

The Second Mystery Megapack

25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories

By: Ron Goulart,Mack Reynolds,Arlette Lees,John Gregory Betancourt,Jean Lorrah,Michael Hemmingson,Ray Cummings,John L French

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The Second Mystery Megapack

25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories

By: Ron Goulart,Mack Reynolds,Arlette Lees,John Gregory Betancourt,Jean Lorrah,Michael Hemmingson,Ray Cummings,John L French

The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: FUNNY STUFF, by Ron Goulart PIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory Betancourt WHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack Reynolds JUST THE FACTS, by Meg Opperman TEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. Booth MORE ALLISONS THAN I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, by Michael Hemmingson REFLECTION OF A DREAM, by Jean Lorrah GRIM REAPER'S HANDICAP, by Fergus Truslow CASH, by Arlette Lees SEAS OF MISUNDERSTANDING, by Ray Cummings HOCUS POCUS HOMICIDE, by Gene D. Robinson THE RIGHT BETRAYAL, by John L. French JEAN MONETTE, by Eugene Francois Vidocq THE SENDING OF DANA DA, by Rudyard Kipling PHANTOM GETAWAY, by Leon Mearson THE MURDER OF SILAS CORD, by Harold F. Sorensen A BOTTOMLESS GRAVE, by Ambrose Bierce DEAD WOMAN, by Dr. David H. Keller HOOK, LINE, AND SUCKER! by Robert Turner THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS, by Robert Reginald WILL FOR A KILL, by Emil Petaja DYING FOR A CLUE, by C.A. Freeburn BODYGUARD, by James C. Glass THE MASKED ALIBI, by John Gregory DR. WATSON'S WEDDING PRESENT, by J. Alston Cooper If you enjoy this volume, check out other entries (including literature, mysteries, westerns, science fiction, ghost stories, and much more) in this best-selling series. Search on "Wildside Press Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list. (Sort by date to see the most recent additions.)

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Delayed Justice

By: Mack Beasley

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Delayed Justice

By: Mack Beasley

Mike Blackman, the ex-con, recovering drunk and part-time investigator is back with his forty-year-old divorced son Ben. Ben has a PI’s ticket and a license to carry. Ben and Mike have a case where Ben has to work with a drop-dead gorgeous single lady lawyer. Mike Blackman is intelligent, daring, and willing to go into harm’s way to help those who would otherwise be found guilty because of their unfortunate pasts. Ben Blackman, Mike’s son, is dashingly handsome and charming. Ben works closely with his father to help solve this murder mystery. Love struck by a beautiful attorney only enhances the plot of this thrilling mystery. In this full-length novel of suspense and romance, Mike agrees to help an old prison buddy, who is now a minster, arrested for murdering his wife. Mike and Ben are the hunters who become the hunted in DELAYED JUSTICE.

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1456087290

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Hidden History of Augusta

By: Dr. Tom Mack

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Hidden History of Augusta

By: Dr. Tom Mack

Situated along the Georgia border, Augusta is known for its golf, beautiful private gardens and southern culture. But its history is also brimming with strange stories yet to be told. A beleaguered German princess gave the city its name. A "haunted pillar" survived a tornado that destroyed the area in 1878. The famous Wright brothers opened a branch of their flying school here in 1911. Author and historian Tom Mack uncovers and celebrates these gems hidden in Augusta's rich and teeming history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625853696

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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

By: John Mack Faragher

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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

By: John Mack Faragher

[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, "a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles" (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this "groundbreaking" (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393242420

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9780393242423

Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820

By: Ruth Mack Wilson

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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820

By: Ruth Mack Wilson

This book presents, for the first time, a history of English liturgical chant as performed in the Church of England and its transmission to churches in Scotland and the United States. In the mid-sixteenth century Reformation, the complex ritual of the Latin rite was replaced by a one-volumeBook of Common Prayer in English. The general nature of the new rubrics, expecially for music, left many of the details of performance to be worked out in traditional ways. Thus the music evolved from its Latin roots in oral, and later written practice. The body of music that makes up the chantingpractice of Anglican and related churches around the world is indeed diversified. Some texts of the liturgy are harmonized in four or more voice parts, often with organ accompaniment, and others are sung in plainsong. The largest group of chants, those for the psalms and canticles, has anidiosyncratic written form and a performance practice that continues to evolve in oral tradition. This music is commonly known as Anglican chant. Its origins in the seventeenth century and its codification in the eighteenth are explored in the choral establishments of the Church of England andparish churches in England, Scotland, and the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0198164246

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Frontiers

A Short History of the American West

By: Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher

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Frontiers

A Short History of the American West

By: Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher

Updated and revised for a popular audience, a fascinating new edition of the classic The American West: A New Interpretation examines the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and the impact of their intermingling and clash, the influence of the frontier, and topics ranging from early exploration of the region to modern-day environmentalism.

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Yale University Press

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0300117108

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9780300117103

Mack Maloney's Haunted Universe

By: Mack Maloney

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Mack Maloney's Haunted Universe

By: Mack Maloney

Where is the best place in the United States to see a UFO? Is there a conspiracy by aliens to prevent us from conquering space? Did you know that King Kong was real? Do you know what ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ means? The answers to all these questions and more can be found here, in Mack Maloney’s Haunted Universe. Visit places you never knew existed: The Cursed Subways of Tokyo. The UFO Trail in Chile. The U.S. Navy’s super-secret Caribbean base. The very mysterious M-Triangle. Read about the Poop Monster, the murderous Goatman, the Bloodbeast of North Carolina, the Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar and more. Mack Maloney’s Haunted Universe contains hundreds of stories about ghosts, haunted airplanes and ships, supernatural battlefields, weird weapons, unexplained noises – and a breakdown of every monster in America, state by state. You’ve heard him talk about it on the radio – now read all of Mack’s paranormal research in one, large volume.

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Speaking Volumes

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1628158972

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The Second Pulp Crime MEGAPACK®

25 More Noir Mysteries

By: Mack Reynolds,Fletcher Flora,Will F. Jenkins,Rufus King,Talmage Powell

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The Second Pulp Crime MEGAPACK®

25 More Noir Mysteries

By: Mack Reynolds,Fletcher Flora,Will F. Jenkins,Rufus King,Talmage Powell

Here is a selection of tales that fit the "pulp crime" theme to perfection. They feature private investigators, police officers, and even everyday men and women pushed into extraordinary situations. From lowly bars to city streets to suburbia, no place is safe from the pulp crime writer -- and here are crimes galore, by some of the top magazine writers of the 20th century! Included are 25 great tales: MURDER ON HER MIND, by Rufus King PAPER CAPER, by James Holding MIND OVER MAYHEM, by Mack Reynolds LOOSE ENDS, by Fletcher Flora A LONG ROPE, by Archie Oboler YOUR CRIME IS MY CRIME, by Talmage Powell LUCKY BREAK, by Will F. Jenkins A DEVIL’S HIGHBALL, by G. T. Fleming-Roberts BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Bryce Walton KILLER BE GOOD, by Talmage Powell A DEAD CLUE, by David Nowinson WHEN DOUBLES CROSS, by George V. Miller FLOPHOUSE COURT, by Hapsburg Liebe HANDY MAN, By Fletcher Flora TURNABOUT, by Colby Quinn AN EXERCISE IN INSURANCE, by James Holding THE CRIMSON COMPLEX, by G. T. Fleming-Roberts ACTOR’S SHOWCASE, by Bryce Walton HEAT FROM TEXAS, by W.W. McKenna MURDER GAME, by Archie Oboler HOPHEAD HOMICIDE, by Robert Carlton NIGHT SCENE, by Jerome Severs Perry FATAL FACIAL, by Cary Moran WAKE UP AND DIE, by Robert Turner DAMON AND PYTHIAS AND DELILAH BROWN, by Rufus King If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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1479422797

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A Shot In The Dark...

The 1967 Murder of Benjamin Brown

By: Willie Mack

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A Shot In The Dark...

The 1967 Murder of Benjamin Brown

By: Willie Mack

When all is said and done, one fact remains. On the night of May 11, 1967, a crowd of protestors marched east on Lynch Street, throwing debris at a line of officers. Shots rang out, several people were wounded, one fatally. Who fired the shot in the dark that killed Benjamin Brown, a supposedly innocent bystander who lost his life on his twenty-second birthday? Who knows what really happened that night? Eyewitnesses gave their accounts, then turned around and recanted those statements. This book recounts the happenings of that momentous night from an objective eye. A true-to-life account that will hopefully remind us of justice, If not, bring closure to wounds left by injustice.

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1450018556

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Lagrange Five

By: Mack Reynolds

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Lagrange Five

By: Mack Reynolds

The Wide syndrome It is the not-too-distant future. The space colony Lagrangia, on the moon's orbit, is an idyllic utopia of parks, mountains, streams and blue skies. Lulled by its beauty, citizens can sometimes forget that the 'stream' are recycled water, and the 'blue skies' are titanium strips bound together. But there are a few who can never forget. There are the victims of the Wide syndrome - a terrifying form of contagious, claustrophobic madness that can strike anyone - at any time - on Lagrange Five.

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0575103116

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Myth and the Christian Nation

A Social Theory of Religion

By: Burton L. Mack

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Myth and the Christian Nation

A Social Theory of Religion

By: Burton L. Mack

America is widely regarded as the ultimate "Christian Nation." Religious language has always been at the forefront of American politics but this has increased since the events of 9/11. 'Myth and the Christian Nation' presents a startling analysis of how and why Christianity and national identity have been woven together in recent American political discourse. Drawing on examples of religious myth-making across the ancient world 'Myth and the Christian Nation' brings the weight of history to bear on America today, a place where myth, monotheism, sovereignty and power can be harnessed together in the service of specific interests. The book invites readers to rethink the role of religion in the construction of social democracy and to see America afresh.

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1317490584

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